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Review article Elevenie

I have translated the article "Elfchen" from the german wikipedia. Since it's an article about poetry I would like to see this article be reviewed by a native english speaker to may replace some parts that could be formulated in a better way as well as spelling and grammar mistakes. The article is pretty much a word by word translation which is missing some parts (eg. I don't know how to correctly translate "Schreibwerkstatt" - word by word it would be writingworkshop - where (according to de.wikipedia) students learn writing/poetry technics).
The name of the article was taken from here: here. If there is a better name for it please rename the page! I did sort the page in category "Poems". If there is a more fitting one again: feel free to move it.
If you have any questions or suggestions contact me. The best way is to use my talk page on Wikimedia Commons! I eg though of adding an elevenie like

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to have some Misplaced Pages related example in there that is not translated. --D-Kuru (talk) 12:16, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

@D-Kuru: I suggest you submit a request to Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 14:46, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

I did copy the entry over to the provided page. Thanks for your fast answer and the page! --D-Kuru (talk) 18:46, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Talk:Cyrano de Bergerac

An RfC about a suggested title exchange between Cyrano de Bergerac and Cyrano de Bergerac (play) --The Traditionalist (talk) 17:21, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Beginning gradual availability of VisualEditor for new users

Last month, I made a proposal at WP:VPPR about gradually enabling VisualEditor alongside the wikitext editor for new editors here. Given the consensus in that discussion, I'm moving ahead with that change, starting later this week.

At first, I will restrict the configuration so that only 5% of new accounts (chosen randomly) have a choice of which editing tool to use. As promised, I'll report back on how well this goes, before increasing the rate to a larger proportion and monitoring from there.

If you have any questions or see any problems, please alert us. The fastest way to reach the team is by contacting us on IRC at #mediawiki-visualeditor , by filing a report in Phabricator, or by leaving a note at Misplaced Pages:VisualEditor/Feedback.

Yours,

Jdforrester (WMF) (talk), Product Manager, VisualEditor – 18:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Research Study on Talk Page Usability

I'm leading a collaboration out of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute that is researching how current editors make sense of the history of articles before they edit, and what kinds of tools or resources might help editors to do a better job. Based on some interviews with some local expert Wikipedians, we're designing prototypes that stitch together article pages and talk sections, history and editors relationships, or talk sections with short digestible synopses.

We think these prototypes would not only help expert Wikipedians make sense of new pages faster, but also help newbies avoid common pitfalls before contributing. But we need your help. While we're accessing all sorts of new data and generating visualizations, we need to stay grounded with what editors actually need. Following HCI traditions, we want to involve Wikipedians in the design process before we start developing prototypes for evaluation.

If you'd like to help us out, we're having short 30-45min Skype conversations with experienced editors (1000+ contributions to en:wiki) where we talk about the kinds of resources editors need to use to make good edits, and get some feedback on several different ways to add new information or redesign Talk sections. More details and a link to the signup sheet are at the lede of the project page on Meta.

As we continue to do this work, we hope to deploy some prototype Talk data visualizations on our Meta page for the Misplaced Pages community to explore. Ultimately we hope to deploy our tools for general use as either addons to WikiMedia or browser extensions. Watch out project page for more info. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the study or the kinds of research we're doing. Thanks for your time!

JeffRz (talk) 18:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Potential copyvio, or at least poor style/formatting

I'm worried that much of the article on Space: 1889 is lifted from a promotional guide, or at the least is not in proper Misplaced Pages style. If this is not the correct place to report this, where should I go? Brownie Charles (talk) 04:32, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Hyphens in links

Which is the correct or preferred way of linking in the following case?

1. The pelagic zone contains ] and ] …
2. The pelagic zone contains ]- and ] …

--Leyo 12:51, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Why not ] and ]?--ukexpat (talk) 20:19, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Well, it's a repetition. Anyway, this is just an example. I am interested in the general question. --Leyo 20:53, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

There used to be something in WP:MOS (or a similar place) about it, but I'm unable to find it atm. Basically if you have something like ], it should be written that way and not as ]adada, even though they display and function the same. --Unready (talk) 06:04, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

Does this mean that you think #1 is correct? --Leyo 11:48, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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